2/25/2013

How Many
Calories Should I Eat Per Day To Lose Weight & Lose Fat?

To answer this question, you should know that losing weight depends
basically on burning calories, and the golden rule for weight loss is
"Your calories intake must be less than your calories consumed". This
force your body to burn the stored fats.

So we have two ways to lose weight:

The first is how many calories should i eat to lose weight.

The second is how many calories should i burn to lose weight.

In this article we will discus how many calories one has to eat to
lose weight.Calories
Required To Lose Weight calculator

The Calorie calculator allows you to calculate how many calories you
should eat a day in order to lose a certain amount of weight by a certain date.

For example: If you are 86kg (189.6Ibs) start of
November and would like to be 78kg (172Ibs) by Christmas, you would specify
that you want to lose 8 kilograms (17.6Ibs) in 2 months. This is how it differs
to other calorie calculators which only allow you to calculate the amount of
calories daily for a specific weight.

The calorie calculator is very useful for weight management as it
displays how many calories are needed over the specified period of time. It
keeps track of your weight loss and calories required. The less you weigh, the
fewer calories you will need to take in for weight loss to continue.

How Many Calories Should I Eat Per Day To Lose Weight?

The Ideal Daily Caloric Deficit: 20% below
maintenance level per day.

What this means is, whatever your daily calorie maintenance level
is, you should be about 20% below it each day. Here’s an example…

Let’s say some
person (male or female) had a daily calorie maintenance level of 2500
calories. They’d first figure out that 20% of 2500 is 500 (2500 x 0.20 =
500). This means they should create a caloric deficit of 500 calories each
day. In this example, that would mean eating 2000 calories per day.

So, take the estimated calorie maintenance level you got in the
previous step and create your 20% deficit. Did you do it? Good. That’s how many calories you should eat per day to lose weight. Make sure you
write it down.

Because this deficit (20% below maintenance) is neither too big nor
too small, it will allow you to maximize fat loss, minimize muscle loss, and do
it all in a way that is easy for you to manage and sustain both physically and
mentally.

That’s pretty much as good as it gets, and that’s precisely why this
is the most often recommended caloric deficit for the majority of the
population looking to lose weight/lose fat.

Of course, one of the main reasons this deficit is so ideal is that
it will cause you to lose weight at the ideal rate of weight loss.